Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender (Preview)

Microsoft is all the time consolidating their various different portals, they already removed multiple portals during recent years. Here is a full list of the current ones, sigh! Turn on Preview features Required permissions Accounts assigned the following Azure Active…

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Section 2 – Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture – Design a security operations strategy

And time for the second section for my SC-100 study guide: Design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations Develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment Design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR Evaluate security…

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Mover.io retirement

History of Mover.io Mover used Bifrost agent to connect to bifrost-v2.mover.io with port 443 Microsoft aquired Mover.io back in 2019 Many of you have been using Mover.io for data migrations, either for your organization or just for personal content. Either…

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Section 1 – Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture – Build an overall security strategy and architecture

The first section for SC-100 study will contain: Identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) Translate business goals into security requirements Translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and…

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Exam cram for Cybersecurity Architect exam

When I wrote the study guide for AZ-500, I was planning to write a study guide for MS-500, SC-400 or AZ-104 but when I saw the contents of SC-100, I decided differently. For AZ-500 I counted 12 parts but now…

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Azure Enterprise-scale or Resource groups?

In this post I will be comparing the two different options, Azure Resource Management and Resource groups. These two are fundamentally different although they have the same functions for the resources. But first let’s go thru the cloud journey you…

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Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Entra has combined three existing solutions under entra.microsoft.com: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)  Multicloud identity and access management solution with integrated security.  Microsoft Entra Permissions Management​  One unified model to manage permissions ​of any identity across any cloud.  Microsoft Entra Verified ID​ …

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Section 15 – Secure data and applications – Configure and manage Azure Key Vault

And here goes the last section in my AZ-500 study guide, the end is coming with: Create and configure Key Vault Configure access to Key Vault Manage certificates, secrets, and keys Configure key rotation Configure Backup and recovery of certificates,…

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What’s new with Cross-tenant access with Azure AD External Identities

Microsoft has released Cross-tenant access settings and it’s still in preview. I wrote an article in February about this feature and let’s see what has been changed. And how to use to it with Teams Teamsplaining it more Difference between…

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Section 14 – Secure data and applications – Configure security for databases

In this section I will cover the following: Enable database authentication by using Azure AD Enable database auditing Configure dynamic masking on SQL workloads Implement database encryption for Azure SQL Database Implement network isolation for data solutions, including Azure Synapse…

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